CyberCrime & Doing Time

The Storm Worm (yes, I know its not a worm, but that's what its called!) has mutated once again and is back in the full swing of "S...

A phishing site hosts fraudulent bank pages, and an IRS look-alike virus A new round of spam, first noticed on January 8th, has been observe...

***IMPORTANT UPDATE*** January 11, 2008! Today Alan Ralsky was taken into custody - arrested after arriving from Germany and taken into cust...

Its been a while since I've looked at a virus with a date-triggered behavior change, but that seems to be the case with the one I'm ...

The newest round of Storm Worm Propagation emails has come out, and its again, largely undetected malware. The main URLs we are seeing at th...

WARNING!! I'm going a bit off topic today. This post started off to be about JavaScript enabled browsing by end-users. Security profes...

Last week a whole group of formerly Russian malware infection websites migrated to a new home in Texas. The move seems to have been made on...

Senator Patrick Leahy introduced a much-needed Identity Theft bill in the Senate on October 30th. The bill, S.2168, cited as the "Iden...

Today I'm preparing for a lecture tomorrow about Malware and Phishing Risks. When I speak on phishing, I frequently mention that the tw...

A disturbing new spam email was received thirty-four times this morning in my spam traps. The email has one of those social engineering bod...

3G Communications Group offers many security services for their clients: According to the 3G Communications Group website, "More than a...

No time to give details (lecture in 45 minutes) but . . . READ THIS: SEVENTEEN INDICTED for phishing, spamming, etc, etc. Yes, that would ...

Todd Moeller and Adam Vitale will join the short list of individuals who know what it feels like to be sentenced under the CAN-SPAM Act. The...

Do you ever write something that you think is going to be ignored, like most of the things your write, and suddenly it takes on a life of it...

Just in time for the spookiest night of the year, the Storm botnet recruitment spam switched to a Halloween flavor. On the evening of Octobe...

Does Ron Paul suddenly have a strong support base among foreign computer owners with strange names and multiple personalities? or is it poss...

Apparently the answer to that is TENS OF THOUSANDS, or more. IskorpitX, the tutor of an entire generation of Turkish hackers, will shortly b...

Have you seen the television show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" I've been thinking about a variation of that questio...

Jörg Ziercke, the chief of the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) in Germany, was quoted in a press release on the BFK website, following a simultaneo...